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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other scheduled productions include "The Passionate Congressman," starting June 25; "My Sister Eileen," with Libby Holman, on July 2, "Winterset," featuring Vera Zorina, on July 9, and "Alice in Wonderland," beginning July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PREVIEW | 6/8/1945 | See Source »

...Bennett, 71, famed actor, father of Barbara, Constance and Joan; after long illness; in Los Angeles. Indiana-born descendant of a line of Methodist preachers, he was brilliant in many hits (Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, Howard's They Knew What They Wanted, Anderson's Winterset). Like his good friend the late John Barrymore, he was a notorious eccentric (his alleged favorite sport: frightening Boy Scouts). He characterized himself as "an honest actor within my limits, counterfeiting as conscientiously as I know how the spurious creatures of the drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 30, 1944 | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

Solid (6 ft. 2) John Wayne, 35, found it very easy to get into films, and very slow going, after he got there. Wayne, born Marion Michael Morrison in Winterset, Iowa, was raised on a California ranch. At the University of Southern California he picked up the nickname "Duke," was an honor student. Vacations, he worked as a truck driver, an iceman, a prop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Oct. 12, 1942 | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

Among the scripts are: "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," "Boys' Town," "Camille," "The Citadel," "David Copperfield," "Fury," "Good-bye Mr. Chips," "The Great Zeigfeld," "Naughty Marietta," "Pride and Prejudice," "Pygmalion," "The Informer," "Roberta," "Stage Door," "Winterset," "Dead End," "Wuthering Heights," "The Prisoner of Zenda," "A Star is Born." "Midsummer Night's Dream," "The Story of Louis Pasteur," "The Gay Divorcee," and "Waterloo Bridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PICTURE STUDIOS PRESENT SCRIPTS | 4/25/1941 | See Source »

Burgess Meredith as Mr. Astaire's collegiate rival in trumpet playing and Goddard-wooing reveals a new fact of his screen personality. The star of Winterset may object to playing trivial comic roles, but to his credit he does it well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

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